by Suzanne Whitby | 9 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
When falling down the internet “rabbit hole” recently, I came across a play that’s currently showing in New York. “The Pocket Kids Park” is all about a group of young friends and park visitors in conversation about how to save their local...
by Suzanne Whitby | 9 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
You don’t have to be big or powerful to contribute to climate action. Just think of zooplankton, tiny animals that are responsible for locking away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars (the equivalent of 65...
by Suzanne Whitby | 9 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
In early June, Leif Weatherby, the Director of NYU’s Digital Theory Lab, wrote a piece for the New York Times entitled “A.I. Killed the Math Brain”. In it, he puts forward the worry that “we, as a society, will become innumerate, not just...
by Suzanne Whitby | 10 months ago | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
Let’s reflect on cigarettes today and consider the scale of the problem they introduce: Cigarette butts are the most common item of litter collected from beach cleanups – worldwide, they amount to 845,000 tons of litter per year. An estimated 4.5 trillion...
by Suzanne Whitby | 10 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
One of the most hopeful things neuroscience tells us is that we are natural explorers. Curiosity isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s how learning happens. Molecular biologist John Medina points out that, in learning environments, attention drops sharply after about ten...
